The Tenant Union Federation is a union of unions, organizing tenants as a political and economic class that cannot be ignored.
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THE BEGINNING OF A NEW BEGINNING: Kentucky Tenant Union wins first tenant-bargained agreement in the South‼️
Yesterday two unions negotiated with their shared landlord and secured recognition, lease renewals, a 10-day grace period for rent, repairs schedule incl. mold remediation
ALT The first page of a press release detailing the agreement reached between Maple Grove Tenant Union, Ridgeway Park Tenant Union, and their landlord, Jason Ostro, who runs a Texas-based corporation. This is the first tenant-bargained agreement in the state of Kentucky, and it is the first in the south. This is also the first example of tenant collective bargaining in HUD properties in recent history. The release details the specific provisions won, including union recognition, a grace period for rent payments, and more.
ALT The second page of a press release detailing the agreement reached between Maple Grove Tenant Union, Ridgeway Park Tenant Union, and their landlord, Jason Ostro, who runs a Texas-based corporation. This is the first tenant-bargained agreement in the state of Kentucky, and it is the first in the south. This is also the first example of tenant collective bargaining in HUD properties in recent history. This page includes quotes from tenants who led the bargaining, including Mary Lou who says, "This is the beginning of a new beginning."
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Minnesota tenants are organizing for a massive rent strike after ICE raids & lost wages push families to the brink—backed by unions representing 25K workers.
@RebeccaJBurns_ & @sarahlazare on why what’s building in the Twin Cities matters everywhere.
inthesetimes.com/article/ice…
ALT A crowd marches down a residential street in daylight while a protester in the foreground holds a large sign reading “DE-ICE THE STREETS / NO FASCISTS.” Other signs in the crowd include “Stand with Minnesota” and a poster that reads, “The only minority ruining this country are the rich.”
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Help us call tenants across the Twin Cities and build 10,000 pledges for the March 1st rent strike!
We fought ICE out of Minnesota. Now we’re fighting to keep them in their homes.
No experience needed. Out of towners welcome.
Sign up: twin-cities-tenants.solidari…
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Feb 20
The largest rent strike in a century?
The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (🧵)
inthesetimes.com/article/ice…
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“The occupation that’s taken place has woken so many of us up to the fact that we are all part of what’s happening with this... It directly affects everyone. And so we’ve shown how community pulls together.”
@inthesetimesmag on our historic strike drive: inthesetimes.com/article/ice…
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Feb 17
MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @GovTimWalz fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, the largest US rent strike in 100 years.
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Feb 17
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Twin Cities Tenant Union has announced a plan to execute a city-wide rent strike starting on March 1st!
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25 Sep 2025
In @Bisnow: “Mr. Eichler and Capital Realty Group have the opportunity to do the right thing, which is in the interest of all involved parties: return to the bargaining table and sign an agreement with the unions. As of now, they are failing to do so."
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25 Sep 2025
Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through @TenantFed to demand collective bargaining.
inthesetimes.com/article/pri…
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22 Sep 2025
In the last six weeks, we've launched seven (7) majority tenant unions, across five (5) states, representing over 1000 units of housing owned by Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate landlord. The first portfolio organizing of its kind...
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22 Sep 2025
“a ‘function of necessity’ in response to the consolidation of rental housing by large landlords: ‘As the challenges facing tenants have grown more complex in an increasingly global housing market tenant organizing is itself becoming more sophisticated”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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6 Jun 2025
Kansas City tenants are declaring victory after an 8- month rent strike. Their old landlord was ousted, and they have a signed agreement with the new one that caps rents guarantees repairs. More details from @KCTenants and @TenantFed for @inthesetimesmag (link below).
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11 Dec 2024
"Absent meaningful action from the government, the question is not whether tenants will revolt, but whether the revolt will be from a place of desperation or a place of power. To ensure the latter, tenants are organizing unions"
@TenantFed
prospect.org/infrastructure/…
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11 Dec 2024
New from @ruthgourevitch and me in @TheProspect as @TenantFed preps for 2025:
‼️What to expect on housing with Trump 2.0
‼️How tenants are experimenting with unions and strikes
‼️What we could win if we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves
prospect.org/infrastructure/…
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10 Dec 2024
"The Tenant Union Federation (@TenantFed) is fostering a wave of tenant leaders who have been pushed to the margins—many of them elderly, disabled, low-income—as they aim to transform renters into a powerful political class."
thenation.com/article/societ…
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4 Dec 2024
STRIKE UPDATE: Quality Hill Towers Tenant Union announced a pause in their 64-day rent strike, a commitment to reaching an agreement with their landlord, Sentinel Corporation. Independence Towers Tenant Union will strike in December, marking the union’s third month on strike.
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25 Nov 2024
TODAY: Open call with @FlyingWithSara, @OlufemiOTaiwo, and organizers from @caaav, @KCTenants, @LouTenantsUnion, Minnesota, Tacoma, Bozeman.
Tenants on rent strike will issue a call to organize, and we will offer support. Register: bit.ly/tufcall
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11 Nov 2024
Spent last weekend training @LouTenantsUnion and this weekend training @KCTenants. As the takes continue swirling, tenants are getting in formation to exercise our ultimate power: our rent. If we have a chance, the chance lives in the tenant union ❤️🔥
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1 Nov 2024
If the regulators agree to stay the night (unlikely), they live momentarily what the tenants live daily- mold, roaches, asbestos…
If they don’t, they show that they wouldn’t accept these conditions for even one night, but they’re comfortable subjecting us to them.
1 Nov 2024
But why is staying the night such an important thing for this matter? And how will that move things forward in a positive direction? And if such a thing does happen I would say Friday night and they must stay till 2:00 p.m. the following day to get a full understanding.
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1 Nov 2024
For years tenants have woken up to bugs crawling on them, undrinkable water, inches of standing water in their bathtub, and holes in the ceiling with actual shit raining down on them.
This response isn't just negligent, it's cruel.
1 Nov 2024
On October 30, TUF shared our terms for bargaining. On October 31, after extensive back-and-forth, FHFA retracted their offer in favor of a one-hour meeting in Kansas City on November 8, without the FHFA Director Sandra Thompson.
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